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Syllabus Bagmati

This document provides the syllabus for an open competitive examination for various positions in agriculture service groups in Bagmati Province, Nepal. The syllabus is divided into two phases - a written examination and an interview. The written exam will consist of two parts testing general knowledge and technical knowledge. It provides the exam scheme and rules for each part. An interview will also be conducted for selected candidates.

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Syllabus Bagmati

This document provides the syllabus for an open competitive examination for various positions in agriculture service groups in Bagmati Province, Nepal. The syllabus is divided into two phases - a written examination and an interview. The written exam will consist of two parts testing general knowledge and technical knowledge. It provides the exam scheme and rules for each part. An interview will also be conducted for selected candidates.

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k|yd kq (Paper I): General Subject
Part (I) : - General Awareness & General Ability Test (50 Marks)

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2. General Awareness and Contemporary Issues [20 ×1 Mark = 20 Marks]
1.1 Physical, socio-cultural and economic geography and demography of Nepal
1.2 Major natural resources of Nepal
1.3 Geographical diversity, climatic conditions, and livelihood & lifestyle of people
1.4 Notable events and personalities, social, cultural and economic conditions in
modern history of Nepal
1.5 Current periodical plan of Nepal and Bagamati Province
1.6 Information on sustainable development, environment, pollution, climate change,
biodiversity, science and technology
1.7 Nepal's international affairs and general information on the UNO, SAARC &
BIMSTEC
1.8 Governance system and Government (Federal, Provincial and Local)
1.9 Functional scope of public services
1.10 Public Service Charter
1.11 Concept, objective and importance of public policy
1.12 Fundamentals of management: planning, organizing, directing, controlling,
coordinating, decision making, motivation and leadership
1.13 Government planning, budgeting and accounting system
3. Major events and current affairs of national and international
Importance [4 X 1 Mark = 4 Marks]
4. General Ability Test [10×1 Mark = 10 Marks]
4.1 Verbal Ability Test
Jumble words, Series, Analogy, Classification, Coding-Decoding, Matrix,
Ranking Order Test, Direction and Distance Sense Test, Common Sense Test,
Logical Reasoning, Assertion and Reason, Statement and Conclusions
4.2 Numerical Ability Test
Series, Analogy, Classification, Coding, Arithmetical reasoning/ operation,
Percentage, Ratio, Average, Loss & Profit, Time & Work, Data interpretation &
Data verification
4.3 Non-verbal/Abstract Ability Test
Figure Series, Figure Analogy, Figure Classification, Figure Matrix, Pattern
Completion/Finding, Analytical Reasoning Test, Figure Formation and Analysis,
Rule Detection, Water images, Mirror images, Cubes and Dice &Venn-diagram
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5.1 English: Knowledge on writing correct English sentences, letters, and reports according to English
grammar based on the following syntactic functions: [3 X 1 Mark = 3 Marks]
a. Parts of Speech:
b. Noun
c. Pronoun
d. Adjective
e. Determiner
f. Verb
g. Adverb
h. Preposition
i. Conjunction and
j. Interjection
k. Infinitives and gerunds, reported speech and tenses
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Part (B) : - General Technical Subject (50 Marks)

1. History and Current Status of Agriculture Sector in Nepal (5 marks)


1.1 History of agricultural research and development in Nepal
1.2 Overview of Nepalese agriculture: Current status and scope
1.3 Institutional arrangement of agricultural research, extension and education in
Nepal
1.4 Agriculture Perspective Plan (APP) and its impact in Nepalese agriculture
1.5 Devolution of agriculture extension system and its impact in agricultural
development

2. Agriculture Research, Extension and Education (5 marks)


2.1 Role of agriculture research in contemporary agriculture
2.2 Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and its vision
2.3 Agricultural education systems in Nepal
2.4 Academic institutions such as AFU, PU, TU
2.5 Non-academic institutions (CTEVT and its allied institutions)
2.6 Major functions of agriculture research, extension and education in Nepal
2.7 Linkage and coordination among research, extension and teaching in Nepal
2.8 Public, private, NGOs, CBOs, agricultural co-operatives and farmer groups
involvement in research, extension and education
2.9 Participatory technology development, participatory planning, monitoring,
evaluation and feedback

3. Natural Resource, Environment Conservation, Climate Change and Disaster-Risk


Management (10 marks)
3.1 Importance of natural resources conservation, utilization and management w. r. t.
food security, employment generation and livelihoodimprovement in Nepal
3.2 Bio-diversity and agro-biodiversity: Conservation and utilization for sustainable
agriculture development
3.3 Use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture and their implications to
environment
3.4 Integrated pest, crop, and plant nutrient management systems (IPM, ICM, IPNM)
and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
3.5 Environmental issues and sustainability of Nepalese agriculture
3.6 Organic agriculture, and organic products for export promotion and food safety
3.7 General climatic conditions of Nepal
3.8 Weather observation and instruments use in Nepal
3.9 Climate change and its impact in agriculture sector
3.10 Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies of Nepal
3.11 Disaster (landslide, drought, flood, cold spell, earthquake, pest outbreak)
management in agriculture

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3.12 Rapid urbanization and change in land use pattern and their consequences in food
security, environment conservation, employment generation and youth migration
3.13 Crop insurance in Nepal: Current policies and status

4. Legislations, Plan, Policies, Strategies, and Global Trade in Agriculture (10 marks)
4.1 Agriculture sector in current constitution
4.2 Concept, goals, target and strategies of current periodic plan
4.3 Planning , implementation, monitoring and evaluation of agricultural projects
4.4 Local governance and its role in agricultural development
4.5 National Agriculture Policy, 2061 (2004)
4.6 Agro-biodiversity Promotion Policy, 2063 (2007) (first amendment, 2071)
4.7 Agri-business Promotion Policy, 2063 (2006)
4.8 Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2015-2035 AD: vision, mission, target,
components and its salient features, implementation status of ADS, supporting
projects and institutional arrangement
4.9 National Seed Vision, 2013-2025 and its implementation status
4.10 Nepal Trade Integration Strategy (NTIS), 2016 - Agricultural commodities
4.11 Agricultural Extension Strategy, 2061 (2003 )
4.12 Seeds Act, 2045 (1988) and Seeds Rules, 2069 (2013)
4.13 Plant Protection Act, 2064 (2007) and Plant Protection Rules, 2066 (2010)
4.14 Pesticides Management Act, 2076 (2019) and Regulation
4.15 Fertilizer Control Order, 2055
4.16 Food Right and Food Sovereignty Act, 2076 (2019)
4.17 Food Safety Policy, 2076 (2019)
4.18 Agro Forestry Policy, 2076 (2019)
4.19 World Trade Organization (WTO), Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area
(SAFTA): their implication and impact in Nepalese agriculture
4.20 Comparative advantage, agriculture commercialization and trading of Nepalese
agricultural products.
4.21 Implication of Sanitaryand Phyto-sanitary(SPS) measures in Nepalese
agricultural trade

5. Agricultural Technology and Management (20 marks)


5.1 Importance of technology generation, verification and dissemination in crop
production and management
5.2 Seed quality assurance: Seed production, laboratory testing, processing, handling,
marketing and storage
5.3 Variety release and registration system in Nepal
5.4 Food and nutrition security: Concepts, status and dimensions
5.5 Importance of pests and pesticides management
5.6 Integrated Pest Management (IPM) concepts and strategies/practices
5.7 Roles of pollinators in crop production
5.8 Importance of microbial agents (fungus, bacteria, nematodes and virus) in plant
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protection
5.9 Importance of crop diversification and commercialization in Nepal.
5.10 Precision and protected agriculture: Concepts and technologies
5.11 Agricultural crops for agro-forestry and environmental protection
5.12 Strategies for commercialization of high value low volume commodities
5.13 Concept of soil fertility and productivity
5.14 Essential plant nutrients and their sources (manures and fertilizers)
5.15 Soil reaction (pH) and soil reaction improvement
5.16 Concept of Integrated Plant Nutrient Systems (IPNS) and its significance
5.17 Contemporary agricultural extension practices in Nepal (plant clinic, mobile
service, training and demonstration farm, farmer to farmer extension and pluralistic
extension)
5.18 Role of information and communication technology(ICT) in agriculture
development
5.19 Agricultural markets and marketing in Nepal
5.20 Agricultural Management Information System (AMIS) in Nepal
5.21 Agriculture Census, 2068
5.22 Linkage of agro-industries with agriculture production and marketing
5.23 Role of cooperatives in agriculture development in Nepal
5.24 Research methodology in agriculture (basic concepts, common designs and their
application)
5.25 Trade liberalization and its implication in Nepalese agricultural product
5.26 Value chain development: concepts and practices in agriculture
5.27 Postharvest management of agricultural commodities
5.28 Farming system and sustainable agriculture development
5.29 Gender Equity and Social Inclusion(GESI) and women's role in Nepalese
agriculture
5.30 Conservation agriculture: concept, principles and practices

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låtLo kq (Paper II) : Technical Subject
Section (A) - 25 Marks
1. Agricultural Extension
• Extension Education, Training and Leadership Development
• Concepts, definition, principles, philosophy and objectives of extension
education
• Role and scope of extension education in Nepalese agricultural
development
• History of agricultural extension in Nepal
• New direction of agricultural extension (subject matter specialist,
privatization, pluralistic, collaborative, gender mainstreaming in
agriculture, pocket package strategy, public private partnership)
• Extension teaching methods and factors to be considered for selection of
methods
• Training need assessment, designing training module and training
management
• Leadership development and role of local leaders in Agricultural
Extension
• Communication, Innovation, Diffusion and Technology Transfer
• Role of communication in agricultural extension
• Communication models and Communication channels (mass media, inter
personal, indigenous)
• Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) and Agricultural
Extension
• Designing effective communication process
• Barriers of effective communication
• Innovation diffusion process
• Adopter's categories and factors affecting rate of adoption
• Development and transfer of technology and selection of appropriate
technology
• Models of transfer of technology (e.g. Conventional, Feedback Model,
Farming System Research and Extension, Farmers' Field School)
• Agricultural Extension System & Extension Program Planning
• Agriculture extension Systems of Nepal in changing context
• Role, responsibility and coordination among stakeholders involved in
agricultural extension in Nepal
• Effective extension program planning: Principles, importance and process
in Nepalese context
• Factors to be considered in executing extension program
2. Agricultural Economics
• Principles of Economics
• Basic concepts on demand and supply
• Price and income elasticity of demand, cross elasticity of demand
• Consumer's preference and indifference curve
• Market classification and price determination under different market condition
• Principles of production (production function, the law of diminishing return,
isoquant, product curves, production possibility curves)
• Cost of production (explicit and implicit costs, total, average, marginal, variable and
fixed costs, economies and diseconomies of size and scale)

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• Comparative and competitive advantage

• Agricultural Economics
• Farm Management
• Scope and importance of farm management
• Farm budgets (total and partial budgeting).
• Cost and return analysis (Major food grains, cash crops and
horticultural crops)
• Farm plan (Resources, constraints and optimization).
• Efficiency measure; farm inventory management and valuation
• Time value of money, compounding and discounting techniques
• Income and net-worth statement
• Agricultural Marketing and Agri-business
• Concept, scope and role
• Characteristics of agricultural market and problems of marketing
in Nepal
• Grading, standardization, quality control and related problems of
agricultural commodities
• Value chain development in agriculture
• Business plan preparation
• Marketing of agricultural inputs (fertilizer, seeds, saplings,
chemicals) and outputs (cereals, cash crops, fruits and vegetables)
• Global and regional context of agricultural marketing and trade
(WTO, SAFTA, Indo-Nepal trade)
• Commodity markets in agriculture
• Agricultural Program Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Data
Management
• Concepts of agricultural planning, preparation of programs/projects,
budgeting and project cycle
• Feasibility studies of agricultural projects and use of B/C Ratio, IRR,
Economic and Financial Rate of Return, Net Present Value
• Risk and uncertainty
• Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural programs/ projects
• Logical framework in project planning and monitoring
• Statistics and Survey Techniques
• Frequency distribution and measures of central tendency, bar and
pie charts
• Computation of mean and standard deviation from grouped and
ungrouped sets of data
• Hypothesis testing and confidence interval
• Regression and correlation analysis
• Estimate of errors, control of error
• Agriculture Census: Sample survey and its advantage over census
survey
• Source of sampling and non-sampling error and measures to
minimize such errors. Sample design for collecting current
agricultural statistics in Nepal
• Rapid and Participatory Rural Appraisal (RRA and PRA) and
crop cutting surveys

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Section (B) - 25 Marks
3. Soil Science
• General Introduction
• Definition of soil
• Soil forming process
• Physical properties of soils (texture, structure, density, porosity,
consistency)
• Chemical properties of soils (soil reaction, electric conductivity, cation
exchange capacity, percentage base saturation, fertilizers and reclamation
of problematic soil: Acidic & alkaline)
• Biological properties of soils (algae, fungi, actinomycetes, soil bacteria)
• Role of soil microorganisms in ammonification, nitrification,
denitrification, biological nitrogen fixation (symbiotic and non-symbiotic)
• Soil organic matter and carbon nitrogen ratio
• Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
• Plant Nutrition
• Essential plant nutrients and their functions
• Visual symptoms of nutrient deficiencies and nutrient disorders
• Nutrient cycle (C, N, P, and S) and its component
• Nutrient requirements, uptake mechanism
• General soil fertility status of Nepal and major causes of declining soil fertility
• Soil testing, plant analysis and diagnostic techniques for improved soil fertility
management
• Integrated Plant Nutrient Systems and its significance in sustainable soil
management in the Nepalese context
• Manures and Fertilizers
• Different types of chemical fertilizers and their application
• Sources and types of organic manures
• Bio-fertilizers, inoculants and their use in Nepalese agriculture
• Fertilizers available in Nepalese market and their use
• Fertilizerregulation, marketingandqualitycontrolmechanismin Nepal
• Soil survey and Water conservation
• Soil Survey
• Importance of soil survey and types
• General soil classification
• Major soils of Nepal and their characteristics (suborder/great
group levels of USDA taxonomy).
• Soil fertility mapping and tools used
• Soil , Water and Plant Relationship
• Hydrological cycle
• Water infiltration and percolation
• Soil permeability and Hydraulic conductivity
• Saturation percentage, permanent wilting point, field capacity
and plant available soil water
• Soil moisture retention curve
• Crop water requirements, evapo-transpiration and irrigation
requirements, water balance
• Soil water management, water stress (drought, water logging)

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• Soil Erosion, Slopping Agriculture Land Technology (SALT) and
terracing
4. Agronomy
1.1 Basics of crop production
• Farming system
• Introduction, system approach in agriculture, component
/determinants of farming system
• Farming System Research Methodology (FSR)
• Framework of FSR methodology
• Resource conservation technologies (RCT) in crop production
• Tillage
• Objective, significance and importance of tillage in crop production
• Zero tillage, minimum tillage and optimum tillage
• Condition of soil suitable for cultivation
• Seed Technology
• Seed formation, development and physiology of seed
• Seed quality and seed classes
• Principles and practices of seed production
• Seed processing, handling and storage
• Seed testing principles
• Seed certification procedures and seed standards of major crops
in Nepal
• Importance of Varietal Replacement and Seed Replacement Rate
• Seed self-sufficiency and seed production programs in Nepal
1.2 Crop production technology
• Production practices of rice, maize, wheat, finger millet, lentil, soybean,
chickpea, mungbean, rapeseed, sunflower, groundnut, sugarcane with respect to:
• Importance , distribution, origin and classification
• Morphology and growth stages
• Recommended varieties
• Climate and soil
• Cultural practices and post-harvest technology
• Underutilized crops and their importance in food and nutritional security
1.3 Plant breeding and research design
• Definition, importance, history and achievement of plant breeding
• Methods of crop improvement and breeding methods in field crops
• Classification of crops according to mode of pollination
• Germplasm collection, characterization, evaluation and utilization
• Variety development procedure in Nepal
• Maintenance breeding of varieties/germplasms.
• Hybrid variety development and hybrid seed production.
• Use of biotechnology in plant breeding
• Research design and application
Section (C) - 25 Marks
5. Horticulture
• Cultivation practices of major horticultural crops
• Fruits: Citrus (Citrus spp.), Mango (Mangifera indica), Litchi (Litchi
chinensis), Banana (Musa acuminate), Apple (Malus pumila), Pear (Pyrus
communis) and Kiwi (Actinida deliciosa)
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• Vegetables: Potato (Solanum tuberosum), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum),
chili (Capsicum frutescens), cucumber (Cucumis sativus), cauliflower
(Brassica oleracea var botrytis), radish (Raphanus sativus), beans
(Phaseolus vulgaris), onion (Allium cepa), Pea (Pisum sativum) and broad
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var rugosa)
• Spice crops: Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Turmeric (Curcuma longa) and
Cardamom (Ammomum subulatum)
• Flower: Rose (Rosa spp.), carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), gladiolus
(Gladiolus spp.) and Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii)
• Plantation crops: Tea (Camellia sinensis) and Arabica coffee (Coffea
arabica)
• Vegetable Seed production technology
• Vegetable seed production zones of Nepal
• Classification and types of seeds (breeder, foundation, certified and
improved; Open pollinated, hybrids, True Potato Seed and Pre-basic Seed)
• Hybrid seed production of tomato in Nepal and seed production of open
pollinated crops (cauliflower, radish, cucumber, and onion)
• Postharvest management of horticultural crops
• Post harvest physiology: transpiration, respiration and ripening of fruit and
vegetables
• Causes of postharvest loss and their management
• Storage of potato and fruits : principles, importance and different storage
structures
• Preservation of fruits and vegetables
• Nursery management in fruits and vegetables
• Sexual and asexual propagation techniques of horticultural crops
• Nursery types and its use in horticultural crop production including hi-tech
nurseries
• Use of rootstocks in horticulture
• Care and management of plants in nursery
• Modern technologies in horticulture
• Organic farming, soilless farming, tissue culture technology for tuber and
sapling production, high density planting, modern irrigation technologies,
use of machineries in horticulture
• Precision and protected horticultural technology
• Urban farming technologies (roof top, vertical farming and home garden)
• Use of plant growth regulators and hormones in horticulture
• Plant growth and development
• Seed germination: mechanism and controlling factors
• Flowering, pollination, fruit set, fruit drop and fruit maturity
• Fruit ripening and senescence: mechanism and controlling factors
• Tuber and bulb formation: mechanism and controlling factors
Section (D) - 25 Marks
6. Plant Protection
• General Plant Protection
• Importance of crop pests & disease
• Climate change and implication on crop pest & disease
• Plant protection principle and approaches
• Importance, issues, challenges and role of plant quarantine in Nepalese agriculture

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• Importance of pest survey and surveillance in disease/pest forecasting and
early warning
• Types of sprayers, duster and seed treatment Equipments
• Use of equipment, calibration, dose calculation
• Biological control of pests and diseases
• Tools used for pest monitoring
• Insect predators, pathogens and parasitoids
• Biopesticides & Biofungicides in pest & disease control
• Type of Pesticide formulation
• WHO classification of pesticide by hazard
• Banned pesticides in Nepal
• Safe use of pesticides
• Status of pesticide use in Nepal
• Symptoms and treatment of pesticide poisoning
• Different methods of pesticide residue monitoring
• Weed management
• Rodents and their management
• Entomology
• Industrial Entomology
• Importance of industrial entomology
• Biology of silkworm and honey bee
• Agricultural Insect Pestsof National Importanceandtheir Management
• Cereals: Stem borers (Chilo partellus; Chilo suppressalis;
Sesamia inferens; Scirpophaga incertulas); Green leaf hopper
(Nephottetix nigropictus); Brown plant hopper (Nilaparvata
lugens); Gundhi bug (Leptocorisa chinensis); White grubs
(Melolontha spp.; Phyllophaga spp.; Holotrichia spp.); white fly
in rice, Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)
• Vegetables: Cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon; A. segetum); Pumpkin
fruit fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae); Aphids (Myzus persicae; Aphis
fabae; A. gossypii; A. craccivora; Brevicoryne brassicae); Red
ants (Dorylus orientalis); Shoot and fruit borer (Leucinodes
orbonalis); Large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae nepalensis);
Fruit borer (Helicoverpa armigera); Tobacco caterpillar
(Spodoptera litura); Potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea
operculella); Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella); White fly
(Bemisia tabaci); South american leaf miner (Tuta absoluta)
• Cash Crops
• White stem borer of coffee (Xylotrechus quadripes)
• Sugarcane plassey borer (Chilo tumidicostalis)
• Pink bollworms (Pectinophora gossypiella)
• Fruits
• Sub- tropical fruits: Citrus fruit fly (Bactrocera spp.); Scale
insects (Aspidiotus destructor, Aonidiella aurantii); Citrus
green stinkbug (Rhynchocoris poseidon)
• Tropical fruits : Mango hoppers (Idioscopus clypealis, I.
nitidulus and Amritiodus atkinson); Banana stem weevil
(Odoiporus longicollis); Banana rhizome weevil (Cosmopolites
sordidus); Litchi leaf curl mite (Aceria litchii)

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• Temperate fruits : Apple wooly aphid (Eriosoma
lanigerum); San Jose scale (Quadraspidiotus
perniciosus)
• Ornamental and Flowers: Red Spider Mite
(Tetranychus spp.)
• Plant Pathology:
• Introduction and importance of plant diseases
• Mechanism of infection by plant pathogen, Host Plant Resistance
• Defense mechanisms of host plants
• Genetics and disease resistance in plants
• Plant disease epidemiology and forecasting
• Agricultural Crop Diseases of National Importance and Their Management
• Cereals : Rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae); Bacterial blight
(Xanthomonas campestris pv oryzae); Stalk rot (Erwinia
carotovora); Leaf blight (Helminthosporium turcicum); Rusts
(Puccinia graminis tritici, P. recondita, P. striiformis); Loose smut
(Ustilago tritici)
• Vegetables and spices: Late blight (Phytophora infestans);
Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanaceanum); Alternaria leaf spots
(Alternaria brassicicola, A. brassicae); Damping off of seedlings
(Pythium spp., Fusarium spp.); Club root (Plasmodiophora
brassicae); Root knot (Meloidogyne spp.); Anthracnose
(Colletotrichum spp.); Tomato yellow leaf curl virus; Rhizomes rot
of ginger and cardamom (Pythium spp., Fusarium spp.)
• Fruits and others: Foot and root rot (Phytophthora citrophthora,
P. nicotianae); Citrus greening (Huanglungbin) – (Liberibacter
asiaticum); Pink disease (Pellicularia samoniclor); Scab (Venturia
inaequalis); Powdery mildew (Levullela taurica); Panama wilt of
banana (Fusarium oxysporum); Coffee rust (Hemalia vestatrix);
Septoria blight of marigold (Septoria apicola)
• Mushroom cultivation
• Cultivated species of mushroom in Nepal
6.4.2 Cultivation techniques of Pluerotus spp. and Agaricus spp.
• Laboratory Techniques & production
• Isolation
• Culture and preservation
• Mounting & culturing
• Sterilization
• Different media used
• Production technique of Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria bassiana &
Trichoderma harzianum T. viridae
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